Tom Holmes

Central Defender - Luton Town
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Tom Holmes

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The Luton Town Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaiah Jones

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kasey Palmer in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Luton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Luton Town do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

The terraces

Luton Town supporters have found a favourite in Reuell Walters

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Reuell Walters has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

Kyle Bartley gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Tom Holmes falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Reuell Walters takes the honours

Marked 7.29 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Luton Town had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Luton Town pick somebody else ahead of Hakeem Odoffin

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Match

Luton Town draw a blank against Blackpool

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Blackpool defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

Back issues
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The Luton Town Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jacob Brown

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Kasey Palmer in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Luton Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Luton Town

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market

Daniel Kelly steps up from the Luton Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Kelly has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Richard Walker joins the Luton Town first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Richard Walker is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Henry Evans steps up from the Luton Town academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Henry Evans has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

One of our own: Timothy Carter joins the Luton Town first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timothy Carter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Isaiah Jones sends Luton Town past Peterborough United

It finished 1‑0, and it was Isaiah Jones’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Luton Town.

Player ratings

Elijah Adebayo ran the middle of the pitch — 6.80

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 6.80, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

In brief